Donald Pederson
Donald Oscar Pederson (born September 30, 1925 in Hallock, Minnesota , † December 25, 2004 in Concord (California) ) was an American computer scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley . He is considered a pioneer in electronic design automation .
Pederson studied from 1943 at Iowa State College interrupted from military service as a GI in Germany until 1946. After the war, he continued his studies at North Dakota State University (then North Dakota Agricultural College) with a bachelor's degree as an electrical engineer in 1948 He then studied at Stanford University with a master's degree in 1949 and a doctorate under Joseph M. Pettit (1916–1986) in 1951. There he conducted research at the Electronics Research Lab. 1953 to 1955 he was at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill in New Jersey and taught at the same time at the Newark College of Engineering. In 1955 he became an assistant professor at Berkeley and later a professor. From 1960 to 1964 he was director of the UC Berkeley Electronics Research Laboratory and from 1983 to 1985 he was dean of the electrical engineering department. In 1991 he retired. He died of complications from Parkinson's disease.
With his student Larry Nagel , he developed the popular simulation program for analog electronic circuits SPICE in the early 1970s . He was also instrumental in establishing integrated circuit design as an academic subject, for example by co-founding a circuit factory for the university in Berkeley.
In 1994 he received the IEEE Centennial Medal, in 1998 the IEEE Medal of Honor (for SPICE) and in 1995 the Phil Kaufman Award . In 2001 the Donald O. Pederson Center for Electronic Systems Design was opened in Berkeley. Pederson was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (since 1982), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1991), and the National Academy of Engineering .
Fonts
- with Kartikeya Marayam: Analog integrated circuits for communication: principles, simulation, and design, Kluwer 1991, 2nd edition Springer 2008
Web links
- Tanya Schevitz, Donald Oscar Pederson - semiconductor chip pioneer, San Francisco Chronicle, January 7, 2005
- Spice Memorandum by Nagel and Pederson, Berkeley 1973 (pdf)
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| SURNAME | Pederson, Donald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pederson, Donald Oscar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hallock, Minnesota |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 2004 |
| Place of death | Concord (California) |